Indonesia’s government is wasting the sun’s rays

Some good news for renewable energy supporters came from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo when he announced his commitment to allocate Rp 1 trillion (US$75 million) this year to build various renewable energy plants.

However, people may be skeptical about whether this initiative will be utilized productively or prove to be mere rhetoric, as usual.

Let’s take one form of renewable energy as an example, solar power plants (SPP), with the sun as their energy source, which is free and available all the time.